On Saturday, a federal judge stopped President Trump from removing immigrants under a war -timed law that is known Stranger Enemy Act 1798 The president said that he would enforce the law after the first announcement of the day.
The judge’s decision was in response to a federal civil case filed on Saturday by a group of five Venezuela in immigration custody in Texas and New York in local prisons in Texas and New York.
Mr Trump earlier on Saturday requested the 227 -year -old war law.
The case filed by lawyers with ACLU and Democracy Forward in the Federal Court in Washington, DC, argues that the Allen Enemy Act is a war -timing step that has been used only three times in the history of our nation: War War 1812, World War II and World War II. “
The presidency is given unusual force 227 -year -old law 14 years of age or older come from these countries of the arrest, detention and deportation of non -Citizens, and from these countries in the US “attacks or hunter attacks”.
District Court Judge James E Boseberg for Colombia’s US District, James E Boseberg, imposed a temporary prevention order to stop his exile for 14 days on Saturday. The Justice Department appealed for the decision, arguing that the DC court has no authority over the case because none of these five persons are in the district. Four and one in New York is being held in Texas. They further argue that the application for the Act of Stranger Enemies is “speculative”.
“We are excited that the judge recognized the severe loss to our plaintiffs,” said Lee Jilant, a lawyer for ACLU, who tried Mr Trump’s announcement. “The use of the president’s alien enemy Act is illegal.”
Subsequently, after an emergency hearing Saturday evening, Boseberg extended his order to include “All Non -Cetazines” in US custody, which is under the move to request Mr. Trump’s alien enemies Act.
Boseberg also showed that any exile flights that were currently in the air that are under this order with immigrants.
The litigation states that Mr Trump “is expected to allow immediate removal of non -existent people who are considered a stranger enemy, without any chance of a judicial review.”
“It also contradicts the Act’s simple language: Venezuela’s non -Setzian incomes are considered ‘attack’ or ‘hunter corruption’ by a ‘foreign nation or government’, where a Venezuelan group, train de Aragua, is considered to be quite quite for a foreign nation or government.
Similarly, the government can identify any Venezuela in the United States as a member of the group, regardless of the facts, and can try to deport them, the case has been accused.
In civil litigation, men also argue that the act of alien enemies has “faced only one force at the time of war, and it only applies to war -torn measures: it cannot be used here against the citizens of a country – Venezuela – with which the United States is not invading the United States.”
The next hearing in this case is scheduled for March 21.
Chemillo Montoia Galvez and Jacob Rosen participated in the report.
Scott McFarelin
